October 14, 2003
What are we fighting for?
If this is it:
US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.then the rebuilding effort is truly broken and misnamed.
This terrorism is not something that any legitimate government supports.
For more detail and links see Electrolite and Whiskey Bar. Be sure to read the comment threads.
Via Mark Kleiman.
Posted by Steve on October 14, 2003
